Organic Food and Your Health

By WSJ Staff

Proponents of organic food extol its health virtues. One example: a finding that children who switched from conventional to mostly organic produce had no traces of pesticides in their urine within a matter of five days.

But organic food is typically more expensive and harder to find than traditional food. And skeptics say the health benefits haven’t been demonstrated in published studies.

Have you made it a point to eat as much organic food as possible? Did you feel better? Vote and post your comments, which may get excerpted in a coming Wall Street Journal special report.

Comments (5 of 35)

It is pretty fascinating that within only a matter of five days of eating organic produce, the pesticide levels in the children’s bodies dropped off. Critics are always quick to point out that eating organic is typically more expensive and not as widely dispersed as regular produce, but when looking at the costs to operate an organic farm, it should be clear as to why the produce is more expensive and harder to come by. It takes much more care and labor to maintain a pest free environment without the use of harmful pesticides. Not to mention, getting certified “organic” is extremely expensive. I find it funny that the article says “skeptics say the health benefits haven’t been demonstrated in published studies.” What do these skeptics want to hear? Isn’t it pretty obvious that not ingesting pesticides is better for your body? I personally try to buy items on the “Dirty Dozen” list organic because I do want to limit the amount of chemicals and pesticides in my own diet. There are so many toxins and things that we are exposed to, or inhale on a daily basis just by being out in the world, I personally don’t want to eat them as well. With cancer and other diseases exponentially growing, I think we have to take our health into our own hands and not blame others when we get sick.

5:47 am October 30, 2014

Zakaria Shoeb wrote :

I definitely agree with this article. I have also read the blog on organic food where I saw something like that.

4:11 pm October 7, 2014

Lorie wrote :

I have definitely found eating organic both tastes better and makes me feel better. I am just not sure that everything marked organic is organic so I am fairly careful about knowing where it originates from.

12:03 pm June 29, 2014

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The real benefit of truly organic food is that they do not have the burden of pestisides. It is all documented that many of these pestiside can cause all types of health issues. There is no going around it. If a cattle is raised in a farm where their feed is grains where antibiotics are added, it is not going to be the same as a grass fed cattle roaming in a field.
One of the recent survey showed Netherlands and several other European countries as top 10 in health.
Whereas US did not even make in the top 25. Needless to say a lot of it depend on the type of food produced and consumed.
I do not even want to go into GMO. We will see the horror of those GMO food, may be after a decade or two,
once there would be enough data to review.